Officials have maintained that the Strikeforce world heavyweight grand prix winner will get another Strikeforce fight – informally referred to as the "plus-one" fight – but Coker said nothing definitive has been decided beyond that.

"There have been some preliminary conversations, but as you can imagine, it depends on who wins and if there are any injuries ... (and) any injuries to other fighters that we might be looking to come fight the winner," Coker said. "That's something that we could probably have a better picture of once the fight's over and see if there are any injuries."

"Me? I do not care," said Barnett. "It does not matter. I've got to beat Daniel Cormier, and then after that I'm sure there will be somebody else, and whatever they're doing someplace else, more power to them."

"Scott Coker, everybody at Zuffa's done a great job of letting us know that after this fight you aren't going over," he said. "You know that you have to fight in Strikeforce, so my idea that I have this fight and another one in Strikeforce. Whatever happens after that happens."

Haadogei - it seems like the reason is that Showtime wants some level of quality maintained as part of the deal to keep the org alive.

UFC already took a lot away from the org; they owe it to Showtime to keep at least a few known guys over there.

The other possibility is, if you read between the lines, they are waiting to see who wins because they want Cormier and don't want Josh. Josh is difficult to deal with, has the drug issues and has been anti-UFC for a long time. He is most likely not a true contender to be champion anymore.

I agreed with everything you said right up until your last sentence. There is zero evidence that Barnett is not every bit as good as he ever was, and in the UFC he'd be right up in the mix just like Cain, Mir, and JDS. So would Cormier. Hell, I'd give Barnett more of a shot of beating JDS than Mir (though not by much).

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